May 29th, 1942

Transcript

Times Log Location Source

10:40am

To Office

White House

USH

10:55am

Press Conf. PC#829 (FDR)

Note: Stenographer's Diary and Tully Diary list this at 1030.

Office

PC, STE, TU

11:15am

Sen. Lister Hill (AL), Sen. Harry S Truman (MO)

Office

STE, TU, PAI

11:45am

Arthur Sweetser

Office

STE, TU, PAI

12:15pm

Admin. National Housing Agency John B. Blandford

Office

STE, TU, PAI

12:30pm

Navy Sec. Frank Knox, Adm. Ernest J. King

Office

STE, TU, PAI

1:10pm

Returned from Office to Study

Office

USH

1:10pm –

1:45pm

(lunch - Study) Harry L. Hopkins

White House

USH, TU

1:45pm –

1:55pm

The Crown Princess Martha of Norway

White House

USH

1:58pm

To Office

White House

USH

2:00pm

Cabinet Meeting

Office

STE, TU

3:25pm

Returned from Office to Study

Office

USH

4:30pm –

5:55pm

(tea - Study) with Harry L. Hopkins, Prof. Samuel H. Cross, Cordell Hull, Soviet Amb. Maxim Litvinov, Commissar for Foreign Affairs Molotov, Vladimir Pavlov

White House

USH

6:00pm –

7:10pm

To Doctor's office

White House

USH

7:30pm

(cocktails) with all dinner guests

White House

USH

8:00pm –

12:00am

(dinner) Commisar Molotov, Mr. Pavlov, Harry L. Hopkins, Prof. Samuel H. Cross

Note: Retired after midnight

White House

USH

ER

Returned from Newbury, WV. In Washington, DC

USH

Houseguest

Commisar Molotov, Vladimar Pavlov, Miss Maria Isimbalova (arr. 4:30), Lt. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr (left 8:35), Miss Eliot Pratt and Pvt. Joseph Lash (left 12:35)

USH

USH = White House Usher's Diary, STE = Stenographer's Diary, PC = Press Conference, TU = Tully's Appointment Diary

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